"All That Glitters Is Not Gold”
Surely in this Digital Age even “the dogs in the street” know that “all that glitters is not gold”? With so much Fake Gold and so many Deep Fakes circulating, surely no one in their right mind takes what they see or hear at face value?
Well I am not so sure because if there was no market for “Fake Gold” there would not be so many willing suppliers and willing buyers. Let’s face it, there is a big market for “Deep Fakes” and “False Narratives”.
Moreover it is a fast-growing market that is not only fueled by “The Tyranny of Relativism” but is being turbo-charged by the rapid expansion of World’s digital circuitry and hyperscalars.
Unquestionably we are living at the start of a New Age where we can believe that anything can be true and everything can be doubted. It’s an age when we actually get to choose what we are willing to accept as being true or false.
Ours is indeed a Brave New World that is rapidly evolving and transforming itself at a dizzying pace. In ten years’ time the World will be quite different than it is today. Indeed, I suspect that any of us who are over 40 today and who will still be around in 25 years’ time will find it difficult to recognise the place as it is today but will be by then, 25 years ago.
On top of that I do wonder, come that time, whether we will be able to recognise all of our fellow human beings as fellow human beings for by that time cyber implants and cosmetic “enhancements” will be as commonplace in the future as tattoos (body art) are today.
Confronting this rapidly emerging and revolutionary reality are three types of people: “winners”, “losers” and “both”. And here, I suggest that most of us, if not all of us, are “both” as we “win” sometimes and we “lose” at others. Indeed it’s only at the end of our lives that we can really begin to take stock and assess whether “net-net” we “won” or we “lost” in life.
Basically we simply just don’t know until “the final whistle’ is blown” whether we won or lost in life’s great game, for the truth is that right up to the very last moment we can always pull “victory out of the jaws of defeat” AND vice versa, “defeat out of the jaws of victory.”
Now while I believe that “it’s never over until it’s over” and that in life “it’s always there to play for” but is it actually true or is it actually false? Could I be wrong? Could I be deceiving myself?
As it happens I also believe that it is in how we choose to live our lives that we manifest what we have decided to be true and here we should be careful to choose wisely and not buy into a life and a lifestyle of glittering false promises.
Come the very end of life, Life’s real Winners know that they have chosen well, and being thankful for a life well lived, are ready to “move on”. By contrast Life’s sad Losers are filled with doubts, misgivings, self-deceptions and ingratitude.
Ultimately how we live our lives is a choice that is based upon what we choose and refuse to accept as True of False, Real or Fake. Unfortunately in our world there are many vested interests and Bad Actors who are actively selling magnificent lies as Truth and are passing off “Fool’s Gold” for the Real Stuff.
Such is life. Sic transit gloria mundi.
Until next Thursday, in friendship and Prayer,
God bless,
George K
Restore God’s Kingdom
@rgkintnl